Gasoline, one of the main products refined from crude oil. The primary use for gasoline is in automobiles and light trucks. Gasoline also fuels boats, recreational vehicles, and various farm and other equipment. While gasoline is produced year-round, extra volumes are made in time for the summer driving season. Gasoline is delivered from oil refineries mainly through pipelines to a massive distribution chain retail gasoline stations throughout the world.

What are the components of the retail price of gasoline?

The cost to produce and deliver gasoline to consumers includes the cost of crude oil to refiners, refinery processing costs, marketing and distribution costs, and finally the retail station costs and taxes. The prices paid by consumers at the pump reflect these costs, as well as the profits (or losses) of refiners, marketers, distributors, and retail station owners.

How the retail price of gasoline data collected?

Global fuel prices vary as a function of global oil prices or due to individual legal frameworks, not only among countries but also within individual countries. German International Cooperation (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has published a list of worldwide gasoline prices by country every year since 1991.

The data for industrialised countries come from various sources, primarily from the German automobile club "Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobile Club" (ADAC) in Munich. Most of the data for developing countries, especially those in Africa and Asia, are based on local price surveys conducted by GIZ's local offices. In some cases, (e.g. Cuba, Myanmar, Sudan, Turkmenistan, North Korea and several Arabian Gulf countries), the German embassies/consulates kindly helped to collect the relevant data. For European countries, nationwide average filling station fuel price statistics (pump prices) were utilised in this survey, whereas for all other countries fuel prices as posted at filling stations in the respective capital cities were collected. The latter was done via a questionnaire that was circulated to GIZ local offices worldwide. Where several fuel prices for major cities were available, the unweighted average has been used.